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Guest:  Philip Maldari is a host and producer at KPFA Radio, currently he is the host of the Sunday Morning show.
 
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Guest: Jason De León is a professor of Anthropology and Chicana/o Studies and director of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at the University of California, Los Angeles.  He is also the executive director of the Undocumented Migration Project, a research, arts, and education collective that seeks to raise awareness about migration issues globally while also assisting families of missing migrants to reunite with their loved ones.  He is the author of the award-winning book The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail, and his latest, Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling.
 
 
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Part I. Inflation and the Economy
Guest: Richard Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus at University of Massachusetts, Amherst and a Visiting Professor at The New School University in New York.  Richard Wolff is the founder of Democracy at Work and host of the weekly national television and radio program Economic Update  that airs on KPFA. 
 
Part II. Haiti’s Disaster Capitalism
Guest: Jake Johnston is a Senior Research Associate at the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C., and the author of Aid State: Elite Panic, Disaster Capitalism, and the Battle to Control Haiti.
 
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Guest: Phyllis Bennis directs the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), her work focuses on the Middle East, U.S. militarism, and UN issues.  She serves on the national board of Jewish Voice for Peace.  She is the author of several books including “Before & After: U.S. Foreign Policy and the War on Terror,” “Challenging Empire,” and her latest, “Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: A Primer.”

 
 
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Guest: John Nichols is the national affairs correspondent for The Nation Magazine. He is the author of several books including his latest co-written with Senator Bernie Sanders “It’s OK to Be Angry About Capitalism.” 
His Latest piece in the Nation is:
More Than Half a Million Democratic Voters Have Told Biden: Save Gaza!
The campaign to use “uncommitted” primary votes to send a message to Biden has won two dozen delegates, and it keeps growing.
 
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Guest: Alexander Stille is the San Paolo Professor of International Journalism at Columbia University. He is the author of many books including Benevolence and Betrayal: Five Italian Jewish Families Under Fascism; Excellent Cadavers: The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic. His latest, The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune.
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